What are the responsibilities and job description for the Performance Engineer position at ClifyX?
Job Title: Performance Engineer
Work Location : Denver, CO (Onsite)
Contract duration: 12 months Contract
Job Description
Seeking a Performance Engineer with 10 years of experience in performance testing and engineering. The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on expertise with JMeter, BlazeMeter, K6, and AI-powered engineering tools for test automation, workload modeling, anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and predictive capacity planning. Experience in designing and executing end-to-end performance testing strategies for web, API, cloud, database, and distributed systems is required. Strong knowledge of observability platforms, CI/CD integration, system architecture, microservices, and cloud-native applications is essential. Candidate should be proficient in Python, Java, Groovy, or Shell scripting and capable of collaborating with QA, DevOps, SRE, and development teams to drive performance optimization and scalability initiatives.
Must Have Skills
- JMeter
- BlazeMeter
- K6
- AI-Assisted Engineering Practices
- Performance Testing & Performance Engineering
- Load, Stress, Spike, Endurance & Scalability Testing
- Distributed Systems & Microservices
- APIs, Databases, Caching & Messaging Systems
- Cloud-Native Platforms
- Performance Analysis, Optimization & Capacity Planning
- Observability & Monitoring Tools (Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, AppDynamics)
Nice to Have Skills
- CI/CD
- Python
- Java
- Groovy
- Shell Scripting
- DevOps Tools